Self Development

The 1 Book Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Say You Should Read to Succeed. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend. 9 Things the Most Influential and Persuasive People Do, Backed by Science. 8 Highly Effective Habits That Helped Make Bill Gates the Richest Man on Earth. How did Bill Gates get to be the richest person in the world, with a net worth around $80 billion?

15 Time Habits of the Most Productive Entrepreneurs. 90 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Business Leadership. This Quick Morning Ritual Primes Your Brain for Success. 5 Things Mentally Tough People Do Every Day. Best Ted Talks 2015 - Draw your future - Take control of your life. The Burdens of Expertise. Stop Being So Positive. We’ve all heard a great deal about the power of positive thinking.

Organizations encourage it among their employees in an effort to boost performance and engagement, and it’s a key tenet of “managing yourself” well; affirmative messages about perseverance, resilience, and vision adorn many an office wall. In the wake of the Great Recession, some businesses even hired happiness coaches to get their workers looking on the bright side.
70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day. The average tech CEO works about 300 days a year, 14 hours a day.

That’s 4,200 hours a year. The stats for most other tech leaders and startup employees aren’t too far off.
Chris Hadfield on How to Overcome Fear — StackStreet. 7 Critical Skills That Predict Success. What skills do you really need to succeed?

In school, they taught us history and algebra and if we got good SAT scores they said we'd succeed. But are those the skills we really need? Developmental psychologist Susan Engel researched the skills that actually predicted success. I'll give you a hint--differential calculus isn't on the list. Here are the 7 skills that are critical for success.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Motivation - 6 rules of success speech - with subtitles. Why Setting Goals Can Do More Harm Than Good. We have all heard this advice: Set goals if you want to accomplish anything substantial.

That advice comes from personal coaches, self-help gurus, management consultants, managers and executives and is deeply imbedded in leadership practices. In organizations, “stretch goals,” a management motivational and performance strategy, is widely practiced. Yet, there is evidence that goal setting can do more harm than good. In our culture, an individual or organizations cannot be considered successful unless goals are achieved. And the usual motivation method used by leaders to achieve these goals is the continual focus on "improvement," "bigger and better," through harder and harder work, and increased productivity. The following is a typical template for goal setting: The support for setting goals has come from both academic/research sources and popular self-help sources. The only problem with this influential finding is that there was no such study. What’s Wrong With Setting Ambitious Goals?
Why Having More Time Being Alone Makes You A Greater Person.

“The best thinking has been done in solitude.” – Thomas Edison When was the last time you were alone?

Not alone by today’s standards (Facebook and Twitter within arms reach, friends constantly buzzing your phone), but truly by yourself, with no outside influences providing data or information to your brain.
Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | 11:00 AM August 27, 2014 There seems to be wide support for the idea that we are living in an “age of complexity”, which implies that the world has never been more intricate.

This idea is based on the rapid pace of technological changes, and the vast amount of information that we are generating (the two are related). Yet consider that philosophers like Leibniz (17th century) and Diderot (18th century) were already complaining about information overload.
Fight Overthinking, That Destroyer of Decision Making. When making decisions under pressure, many professionals are plagued with a fear of making the wrong choice, selecting an option that could lead to business failure.

This fear of failure, in itself, is not a bad thing. In our new book What Business Can Learn From Sport Psychology, we examine how a fear of failure can actually provide powerful motivation for athletes and business professionals. But that's only if the fear of failure inspires thoughts of success and taking assertive actions toward a desired goal.

So where does the fear of failure stem from? Often it originates from the fear of making the wrong choice, which more often than not is caused by overthinking. Related: The 4 Factors to Making the Best Decisions for You. The 7 Duties of Great Software Professionals (Reworked)
Become So Good They Can't Ignore You. 5 Signs You’re Going To Make It Big One Day. Own Your Personal Development. The Busy Person's Guide to Content Curation: A 3-Step Process. 841 Flares Filament.io 841 Flares × Museums curate works of art.

We digital marketers curate blog posts.
Why the Five People Around You Are Crucial to Your Success. One of my company's co-founders, Jeremy Weir, recently spent a weekend surfing with Uber co-founder Ryan Graves, enjoying talks about upending markets and fundamentally changing businesses.

He returned from the trip having had an epiphany and possessed a renewed sense of excitement as we prepared to launch into a new vertical. Because Jeremy typically works by himself in a remote office, Graves’ influence proved to be a huge asset. It all proves that the company that a businessperson keeps can have a profound effect on him or her and subsequently the success of a business. Related: Getting Your Dream Mentor to Talk to You. The rules are ..............
4 Reasons Why Being Comfortable Isn’t a Good Thing. We should all be comfortable, shouldn’t we? Well the answer may be obvious to most; yes of course everyone should have the right to a comfortable life. However comfort most often goes hand in hand with stagnation, in whatever your goals may be.

Being comfortable means that you have accomplished what you think is necessary and have no further interest in pursuing goals of self-improvement in your health, career, mind and overall life.
Why Travel Is Very, Very Good for Your Résumé. I’m saddened to hear about people who would love to travel more but are concerned about the impact taking an extended trip might have on their careers. You know that saying about regrets — I’m not sure all these people will get to seventy and say “I really wish I’d got one extra promotion”, but I bet a heap of them will think “I wish I’d traveled more”.

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Your Employees Want the Negative Feedback You Hate to Give - Jack Zenger , and Joseph Folkman. By Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman | 1:00 PM January 15, 2014 Would you rather hear positive feedback about your performance or suggestions for improvement?
The Habits Of Supremely Happy People. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.

The Science of Inspiration (and How to Make It Work for You)
The Most Valuable Lesson I've Learned as a CEO. The Importance of Personal Projects.